Julie Joins Facebook
Julie was sitting in bed late at night playing with her brandnew smartphone.
Earlier that week, she had been visited by her children and grandchildren to
celebrate her 70th birthday, and had received the phone as a gift from her
granddaughter Mary. Julie had been widowed for five years now. Since she lived
hours away from the rest of the family, Mary thought the phone would be a good
way for them to keep in touch and take up some of her time.
Up until then, Julie had never really been interested in catching up with modern
technology, but finally owning her own smartphone made her feel youthful, and
she decided to join Facebook since that was what she had noticed all the younger
people were doing. However, when making her profile page, she was embarrassed
to put up a picture of herself since she thought she looked much too wrinkly and
nobody would want to talk to her. To remedy this, she downloaded a picture of a
beautiful 20something year old from Google, posted it under her name, and went
to sleep.